TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

The Iraqis make a deal

By TigerHawk at 4/22/2006 09:21:00 AM

The Iraqi Shiites have settled on a new prime minister who is much more acceptable to the Sunnis and the Kurds. The new guy, Jawad al-Maliki, is thought to be more competent than his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and less tight with Iran. He is also uncompromising in his attitude toward the insurgency, and yet has earned the endorsement of leading Sunni leaders. How did this come to pass? Perhaps because we Americans have increasingly mumbled about imposing our deadline. In this regard, it seems that John Hinderaker and John Kerry agree! Partisan politics, it seems, has finally retreated to the water's edge....

2 Comments:

I truly doubt that US political issues had anything measurable to do with Iraq's political calculations.

I think that Jaafari, and the UIA, were becoming the political scapegoat for the continuing civil war.

Maliki worked for Jaafari, and is from Dawa too -- so "policy" will be similar. But most political coalitions become very personal. This is a no-lose/no-lose compromise--the Sunnis & Kurds don't lose on Jaafari, the UIA/ Dawa faction doesn't lose on PM.